Why should we as fans care if he 'is worth' £25m or not? He is already at a level which means he would improve our team from day one, and he has potential to become even better. That is really all that matters. We need players better than what we currently have to improve, and he certainly fits that bill.

because alot of gooners feel brow beaten by our tight fistedness in recent years, and are overly paranoid about the possibility of a big money flop.

Rex, don't be the "iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii" in "Wait for iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit".

Half of Twitter say the deal is 100% on and the other say we aren't interested at all....

The 23-year-old has also been linked with a €28 million move to Arsenal, but Prade said: “The way I see it, this interest is non-existent. I have not had any contact with them at all. I don’t think Arsene Wenger is interested in the boy.”

I think if Wenger had been in contact with Fiorentina about a possible transfer he would have told Prade to say as much to the press anyway.

JazzG wrote:

Half of Twitter say the deal is 100% on and the other say we aren't interested at all....

I remember we were so very close to signing tevez till the end of aug 31 a few years ago. The whole newsnow arsenal page was filled with news on that. Later on wenger came out and coolly said we were never even in for him.

The gonalons and sanogos are our kind of transfers. Only when one is signed should we be discussing about these big money guys.

The Arshavin saga was hilarious. His agent was basically a Bond villain.

Arshavin would make a good bond villain...

200 over pages, I remember. Most epic thread ever.

Don't think I was ever more excited about a transfer than that.

Fantastic.Mr.Fox wrote:

LeGrove says we arent after him at all.

His blog today is just an opinion piece. Says he's not worth 30m and that he's not a proper centre forward, and for those reasons doesn't think we are interested.

Timothy wrote:
Fantastic.Mr.Fox wrote:

LeGrove says we arent after him at all.

His blog today is just an opinion piece. Says he's not worth 30m and that he's not a proper centre forward, and for those reasons doesn't think we are interested.

Well for those same reasons I'm not interested in LeGrove

No denying he chats a lot of shite.

But spose we all do.

I stopped reading LeGrove some two years ago. But, if they don't rate him, then he must be good.

Fantastic.Mr.Fox wrote:

LeGrove says we arent after him at all.

He'll probably be announced as an Arsenal player soon, then.

Pepe LeFrits wrote:

Not me, every word I post is 128 carrot gold.

Shut up fatty.

Timothy wrote:
Pepe LeFrits wrote:

Not me, every word I post is 128 carrot gold.

Shut up fatty.

I thought carrot gold would be slimming 🙁

I guess Jovetic to Arsenal is dead in the water then.
I thought I'd be fed up at that but I'm not really.

The lack of solid eye popping links at this point in time is a bit annoying

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Hmm...yeah, I know but it's nearly June.
Imagine what I'm going to be like by July if we've not signed anyone outside of Tata.

Tata Samphire of course.

The less links the more likely we've signed someone.

When's Sanogo confirming?

So we have gone from Jovetic's agent is in London to neither team is interested to now that Jovetic is only interested in Italy. Would love to know what the real story is here. Still think at the very least we need a creative type to play on the wing/in the hole, a striker to push Giroud and a GK. Jovetic would fill that creative role well with maybe only Isco being a better fit.

Tancredi Palmeri ‏@tancredipalmeri 2h
Jovetic through his agent has turned down Arsenal's wages offer of 5m € per year.Everyone standing by for a Juventus bid,still not arrived

I can't work out what a competitive wage offer is any more.

Doesn't sound like he's particularly keen on coming here.

A competitive wage offer is one which is at a level which he could get at another club of similar stature.

otfgoon wrote:

Doesn't sound like he's particularly keen on coming here.

Nothing wrong with a player/agent trying to get the best possible deal.

Yeah.

Or maybe he just doesn't want to come here. Obviously Juve are more attractive right now anyway.

So the fact that we're discussing wages means our bid has been accepted?